de Gaynesford Agents and Their Actions

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4674-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Ratio Special Issues

Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field,Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly commissionedessays by leading international philosophers that highlight themost recent debates in the philosophy of action
* Features seven internationally significant authors, includingnew work by two of philosophy's 'super stars', JohnMcDowell and Joseph Raz
* Presents the first clear indication of how John McDowell isextending his path-breaking work on intentionality and perceptualexperience towards an account of action and agency
* Covers all the major interconnections between action-agencyand central areas of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Historyof Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Language
* Provides a snapshot of current debate on the subject, which isfresh, enlightening, and fruitful

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Gaynesford, Maximilian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vi
Preface vii
1 Reasons for Action and Practical Reasoning 1
Maria Alvarez
2 Ambivalence and Authentic Agency 20
Laura W. Ekstrom
3 The Road to Larissa 39
John Hyman
4 What is the Content of an Intention in Action? 61
John McDowell
5 Being in the World 79
Joseph Raz
6 Moral Scepticism and Agency: Kant and Korsgaard 99
Robert Stern
7 Speech, Action and Uptake 121
Maximilian de Gaynesford
Index 138

Über Autor(innen)

Maximilian de Gaynesford is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Reading. A previous Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford,de Gaynesford is the author of I: The Meaning of the FirstPerson Term (2006), Hilary Putnam (2006), JohnMcDowell (2004), and a number of articles on the philosophy ofmind and language, moral philosophy, and aesthetics.